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Excerpt from The Homestead: Embracing Observations and Reflections on America and Ireland, on the Writer's Return From the United States; With Occasional Poems
Those Pacific States possess vast tracts of the richest soil, of the easiest cultivation, a true Eldorado of inexhaustive mineral wealth, with the finest climate in the world and, from their natural position, impreg nable_; commanding the rich trade of the Eastern Hemisphere, and, by the three hours' railway route of Panama, the commerce of Europe; to these subjects.
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